The bed also yielded a sheeted ghost, a 'spectacled' brown bear with a sore head and a dribbly grey wolf, both wearing fine faux fur coats, quite apart from providing the Prince with a place to sleep in his royal stripey pyjamas. It was also a wizard choice for this time of the year, with an open invitation to the audience to wear Hallowe'en fancy dress for their trip to the theatre, with many children doing just that, enhancing this fun production. It was too advanced for my baby at the time, but I actually really liked this story. Should read it again. Anyway a kiss goes missing and a knight goes out to find it, but it wreaks havoc on the fantasy landscape! This cover of this book leads the reader to believe there might be a fair maiden who is delivering the kiss... Once the story begins we learn that the wayward kiss is delivered by the busy king who is not attentive to his son and misses his son's cheek.. Thereby bouncing around the room and out the window... Thus creating a chase scene by a faithful royal knight. The misadventures of the knight are comical and the illustrations delightful. Hain iheskorra eta harrapatzeko zaila den muxu batek ihes egiten duela baina bere etorrerarekin basoko biztanle guztiak harritzen ditu. Oso ilustrazio politak eta oso politak.

The Kiss That Missed by David Melling | Waterstones

Some of the word choices are great - alliterative and/or onomatopoeic - words the really want to be read aloud - but again, there are a few places where opportunities are missed and I find myself ad-libbing more apt phrases. The Kiss that Missed" by David Melling is a great entertaining read! In it, the king of the land is always in a hurry and when he blows a goodnight kiss to his son, the kiss misses! The prince can't go to bed without his goodnight kiss, so the King sends out his trusted and bumbling knight to retrieve the wayward kiss. On his journey, the knight encounters wolves, owls, and a dragon! Hmmm... looking at the last couple of paragraphs I may have become quite a harsh critic for kids books... It's great for typical boys (knight, dragon) and typical girls (princess, kiss). It has a great moral that isn't in-your-face (in fact, the kids probably don't overtly get it, which is fine, since it's aimed at the parents too).Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA12264 Openlibrary_edition Since this classic picturebook was published over 10 years ago, it has sold over 300,000 copies and become a favourite bedtime story for boys and girls everywhere. Anyway, the son of a Loyal Royal Knight is drafted-in to become the royal babysitter, and retrieve the kiss, but proves to be a bit flakey in the 'fearless' department, and their adventures begin, accompanied by jaunty music and songs by composer Ben Sutcliffe, with costumes crowned by Yasmin Baird.

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A glossy, eye catching cover always gets my attention and this one promises great action and adventure. The high standard of detail continues through the entire book and some illustrations have a comic book effect. It wouldn't have happened if the King had not been in such a rush to dash off to a Strictly ballroom dancing course to brush up the royal rumba and achieve a perfect paso doble. Designers Marion Harrison and David Gibson's magnificent royal four poster bed, was the base for a lively tale that transformed it into the leafy Wild Wood - and a fearsome fire-breathing dragon, with long red tongue, purple wings and wide yellow eyes.Absolutely one of my favourite kids stories. Melling's illustrations are amazingly good, and this is a great story as well.

The Kiss that Missed | Minack Theatre

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2019-09-19 12:57:53 Boxid IA1664902 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierDavid Melling’s delightful series of Knightly Tales is brought to life with all the charm and humour of the original stories, plus some new songs and, of course, plenty of kisses bouncing around. John Brolly, actor, storyteller and associate director at the open air theatre knows a good tale when he sees one, so The Kiss That Missed, was right up his spooky street.

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I credit this book with introducing wolves to my son as an imaginary nemesis. More than once Fin has walked into a room and gone "Oh no, wolves with dribbly mouths!" and fled, giggling to hide under a table. Getting a little one to read a lot does great things for their vocabulary and imaginative play, but there are moments where he seems quite, quite mad...

A kiss so fugitive and elusive that it escapes but surprises all the inhabitants of the forest with its arrival. Very nice and very nice illustrations. And it was a bedtime scene that began the tale, when the King blew a kiss that missed towards the end of the Prince's nose, which escaped into the night. The characters of this story are fairly one-dimensional, but the story itself is what carries all the laughs and adventure that make it so entertaining. The illustrations are essential to the comedy and bring the story to life with vivid depictions of the characters' antics. Shopping - Do you like it or hate it?" ( a 90-minute class) - Reading comprehension + writing for Intermediate or Upper elementary students